The yen jumped to its strongest level since February as investors repositioned ahead of an expected Bank of Japan rate rise next week, with the BOJ case supported by a July real-wage gain and a higher estimate for Japan’s Q2 GDP.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
WTI crude was up $3.10 (+3.4%) and Brent was up $2.80 (+2.9%) early Tuesday, while diesel rose about 13.0 cents (+2.8%) and gold fell $40 (-0.9%) with silver down 26.0 cents (-0.4%).
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
GE Vernova (GEV) has gained 57.3% over the past 52 weeks, outpacing the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s (Dow) 17.1% gain over the same period, even though GEV is down 21.2% from its 52-week high of $1,195.94 and down 2.2% over the past three months while the Dow is up 3.5%.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
S&P 500 E-Mini futures are down 0.20% while Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures are up 0.05% as investors wait for U.S. inflation data and Oracle’s earnings, with oil near $100 adding caution.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Grindr agreed to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a UK class action alleging it shared sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties, with no finding or admission of liability.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Register
PlusAI agreed to merge with Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp. to become a publicly traded company, with the deal expected to provide $300 million in capital (more than $60 million in committed financing plus $236 million in trust) for a commercial launch of factory-built autonomous trucks in 2027.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Funding Circle’s first-half 2026 credit extended rose 52% year over year to £1.7 billion, revenue increased 50% to £138 million, and profit before tax quadrupled to £24 million, leading it to raise 2026 guidance to revenue above £255 million and profit before tax above £40 million.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China imported 37.93 million tons of crude oil in August—8.93 million barrels per day—up 6.2% from July, even as imports were still 23.4% lower than August 2025.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Chime Financial’s shares rose 44% in August after its Q2 results beat expectations and showed adjusted EBITDA margins of 15%, up more than 12 percentage points year over year.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ministers told UK departments that the default should be to make decisions and move on, cutting back “consultation culture” that they call an “industry of dither and delay.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Ray Dalio’s first stock pick, Northeast Airlines, was about to go broke but then another company bought it and it tripled.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The yen rally has triggered a rapid unwinding of the carry trade, with cross-border yen borrowing ballooning to a record 360 trillion yen ($2.35 trillion) as of March, leaving investors exposed to a sudden de-leveraging if the position is unraveled quickly.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Prosecutors allege a gold, bitcoin and cash “scheme” fleeced more than 200 US seniors out of over $250 million, with gold allegedly melted at a Florida refinery into molten puddles.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
You should expect to live another 20–25 years after retiring at 62, so your portfolio structure needs to balance long-term growth with risk management.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stoke Space completed the initial closing of a $1 billion Series E round to scale up operations, including development of its second-generation reusable rocket.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The UK government has bundled £7.8B of cross-departmental spending into a new space strategy through 2030 spanning collision warnings, low Earth orbit communications, military intelligence, launch capability, and space science.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
BYD expects overseas shipments to exceed 2.5 million vehicles in 2027, with management also guiding 2026 exports at 1.9 million to 2.0 million vehicles.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Away luggage is discounted by up to 20% at Amazon for a limited time, with several sizes and colors included.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
CNET
Arm’s Compute Subsystem for Mobile 2 (CSS for Mobile 2) targets agentic AI on-device and introduces Mali G2-Ultra NX neural graphics meant to deliver “desktop-class” ray-traced gaming within a 1 W power budget, including Neural Super Sampling (540p to 1080p) and Neural Frame Rate Upscaling.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Crypto platforms lost more than $3.63 billion from January 2025 to July 2026 due to cyberattacks and stolen passkeys, even though about 88% of stolen funds came from platforms that had completed independent security audits.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
CNBC
